'Heigh Ymaginacioun' in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale

Author / Editor
Wentersdorf, Karl P.

Title
'Heigh Ymaginacioun' in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale

Published
Studia Neophilologica 52 (1980): 31-34.

Description
Line 7.3217--"By heigh ymaginacioun forncast"--means not that the fox's attack was predestined, or foretold in the cock's dream, but that the fox had carefully planned his act of high treason against the royal Chauntecleer.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.